{"id":10478,"date":"2011-09-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/24\/bangladesh-introduces-tv-censorship\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:00:00","slug":"bangladesh-introduces-tv-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/24\/bangladesh-introduces-tv-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Introduces TV Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2011\/sep\/12\/bangladesh-freedom-of-speech\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGLADESH, September 12, 2011 (The Guardian): The Bangladeshi government has introduced a new broadcast law to censor the content of TV programs and movies. Aside from prohibiting political, religious and (so-called) sexual material, it also bans the transmission of stories that hold power to account.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the popular Dhaka-based Weekly Blitz, the law effectively prevents any criticism of the government and its institutions. It bans TV channels from broadcasting any &#8220;promotional&#8221; or &#8220;advertising&#8221; content relating to non-Muslim festivals such as Christmas, Purnima [Buddhist] and Puja rituals [Hindu].<\/p>\n<p>Blitz lists 14 specific bans and accuses the Bangladesh government of exposing &#8220;its hidden anti-democracy face to the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BANGLADESH, September 12, 2011 (The Guardian): The Bangladeshi government has introduced a new broadcast law to censor the content,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}